Jessica's Journey
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Our beautiful daughter Jessica was born in September 2011 with a severe heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This was diagnosed at her 20 week scan and we were initially told that she was unlikely to be suitable for surgery.However, a pioneering in-utero operation at 28 weeks to enlarge a hole in her atrial septum was carried out and she was able to make it to term and get through.
Jessica's Journey
5y ago
We have now received the report from St Peter’s Chertsey after their investigation into the care that Jessica received there shortly before her death. They have concluded that Jessica’s care there was appropriate and acceptable and the cardiology team at Southampton were happy with the care that Jessica received and the decisions that were made. The only thing that might have been done differently would have been to transfer her back to Wexham Park instead of discharging her home as she was known to the medical staff there but they feel that this was unlikely to have made a difference to the o ..read more